A Texan conservative Anglican -- yes, a square peg -- ponders both churchly and worldly things and enjoys his new church.

Monday, July 06, 2015

Republicans Must Defend Freedom of Religion

The Supreme Court ruling
requiring the legalization of same-sex marriage and the attacks on Christians who
can not and will not participate in SSMs have made freedom of religion that
much more of a presenting issue in this country.Republicans had better get on the right side of this issue
with more than words.And that not
only because it is the right side but also for their own political survival.

The conservative base
support of the GOP has again and again seen Republican leadership sell them out,
on Obamacare, on illegal immigration, on trade, etc. etc. Really, the GOP
Establishment has stabbed conservatives in the back again and again.Will they do so even on freedom of
religion?

It is not for nothing
that support for Donald Trump is high, second among GOP candidates at this
writing. He really should not be
doing well.He should be a joke,
and he is in some ways.But he is
at least putting on a good show of fighting for conservative American citizens and their values and even
getting angry about what is going on in this country.There are a multitude of Republican candidates for POTUS but
how many are so sharing in the anger of the Republican base?The base is rightly feeling that
precious few in politics are fighting for them - and some are desperate enough even to look at Trump.

Patience is
running out - the base is fed up with GOP and its quisling establishment
leaders.If now the GOP cannot
bring itself to do something as basic and American as defending the religious
freedom of its base and of all Americans, that will be the last straw.Further, if the GOP nominates a candidate
for President who is tepid in defense of Freedom of Religion (not to mention
the rest of the Constitution), the base will not turn out for him and may even
go Third Party as I’ve warned before.